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Adaptation to Extreme Weather by Humberto Blanco-Canqui is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Adaptation to Extreme Weather about?

The frequent droughts, floods, heat waves, and erratic rainfalls and snowfalls we have been experiencing are examples of extreme weather events on a global scale . Severe droughts or heat waves are often followed by intense localized rainstorms and floods in subsequent years, reflecting the abnormal and fluctuating conditions. These extreme weather events are unfortunately becoming a norm rather than isolated events (Kaye & Quemada, 2017). Some of these extremes have delayed timely field operations (e.g., crop planting), altered growing seasons, impeded crop germination, and reduced crop yields and farm economics in recent decades.Climate modeling exercises indicate further weather fluctuations in the future with more erratic rainfalls, higher temperatures, recurrent droughts, and other extreme scenarios . However, one does not have to travel far or only follow future projections from computer models to believe in extreme events. The past and current extreme weather events we have seen are enough reasons to design new or redesign current soil management strategies to adapt to such events. The key question is: How can we build the resilience of soils to adapt to such extreme events?

Author

Humberto Blanco-Canqui

Publisher

Wiley

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9780891186397

Subjects

Management, Science, Social Science